Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) -- The reactionary bourgeois ideology and culture are the counterrevolutionary and unpopular ideological poison leading people to corruption and degeneration, Rodong Sinmun Monday says in an article.

The reactionary idea and culture of the imperialists are finding their way to all countries and regions of the world as mental narcotic poisoning the sound ideological consciousness of the popular masses and degenerating them, the article says, and goes on:

Now the imperialists are leaving no means untried to focus ideological and cultural offensive on anti-imperialist and independent countries.

The imperialists' ideological and cultural poisoning is a prelude to aggression and interference in internal affairs of other countries.

They are calculating that the reactionary ideological and cultural poisoning are the most effective way for infiltrating into those countries with strong independence against imperialism not yielding to military aggression and highhandedness.

Whereas the reactionary ideology and culture were their guide to aggression in the past, they are playing a leading part in aggression at present.

The ideological and cultural standoff with the imperialists is fiercer than other fronts. A moment's hesitation and a concession in this confrontation will give the reactionary ideology and culture a chance to infiltrate and, if then, the destiny of the country and the nation will go into bankruptcy.

The stronger the consciousness of independence of the popular masses become and the further the revolutionary advance of progressive forces is made, the more viciously the imperialists resort to ideological and cultural poisoning.

Those countries and people desirous of independent development and social progress should thoroughly stamp out the bourgeois ideological and cultural poisoning of the imperialists through the revolutionary ideological offensive.